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== Real Life == |
== Real Life == |
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* Granby, Colorado was this until [[wikipedia:Marvin Heemeyer|Marvin Heemeyer]] destroyed it in the Killdozer, his homemade armored bulldozer. |
* Granby, Colorado was this until [[wikipedia:Marvin Heemeyer|Marvin Heemeyer]] destroyed it in the Killdozer, his homemade armored bulldozer. |
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* [http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/10/media-newspapers-news-biz-media-cx_jz_1210boringcities.html This list] of the ten most boring cities in America. Arizona is well-represented with three cities on the list (Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert), with California and Nevada also having multiple cities appear. |
* [http://www.forbes.com/2008/12/10/media-newspapers-news-biz-media-cx_jz_1210boringcities.html This list] of the ten most boring cities in America. Arizona is well-represented with three cities on the list (Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert), with California and Nevada also having multiple cities appear. |
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* Alamogordo, New Mexico: a sleepy suburb-without-a-city in the middle of nowhere, but with such events as the Trinity Nuclear Test Site forty miles north, [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983|the burial of ET: The Game just outside city limits]], and (more recently) the [[Harry Potter]] Book Burning by local [[Principles Zealot|zealots]]. |
* Alamogordo, New Mexico: a sleepy suburb-without-a-city in the middle of nowhere, but with such events as the Trinity Nuclear Test Site forty miles north, [[The Great Video Game Crash of 1983|the burial of ET: The Game just outside city limits]], and (more recently) the [[Harry Potter]] Book Burning by local [[Principles Zealot|zealots]]. |
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* Ohio. All of it. |
* Ohio. All of it. |
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* Vermont, definitely. There are three questions that get asked when you say you're from Vermont. ''Where's that?'', ''What state's that in?'' and ''Isn't that part of Canada?'' Not kidding. |
* Vermont, definitely. There are three questions that get asked when you say you're from Vermont. ''Where's that?'', ''What state's that in?'' and ''Isn't that part of Canada?'' Not kidding. |
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* Inverted with St. Louis, Missouri. Stuff [[I Used To Be Cool|used]] to happen here (the World's Fair, the Olympics), and now we're probably best known for a [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17361995 recent BBC documentary] about how racially and economically disparate the north and south sides of Delmar Boulevard are. |
* Inverted with St. Louis, Missouri. Stuff [[I Used To Be Cool|used]] to happen here (the World's Fair, the Olympics), and now we're probably best known for a [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17361995 recent BBC documentary] about how racially and economically disparate the north and south sides of Delmar Boulevard are. |
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** And on the other side of the state, Joplin was more or less unknown until the May 22nd, 2011 tornado hit and took out much of the city. |
** And on the other side of the state, Joplin was more or less unknown until the May 22nd, 2011 tornado hit and took out much of the city. |
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=== Not USA === |
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